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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

S.2433 Would Surrender Much of U.S. Sovereignty to The U.N

S.2433 Would Put US Under UN Mandate

11-29-8

SENATE BILL S. 2433 THE GLOBAL POVERTY ACT

According
to David Bossie, President of the group 'Citizens United for American
Sovereignty', based out of Merrifield Virginia, website: http://www.citizensunited.org/

The
above- mentioned Senate Bill (S. 2433) is a piece of legislation in the
works that all Americans need to know about and know now!

This
bill, sponsored by none other than Sen. Barack Obama, with the backing
of Joe Biden on the Foreign Relations Committee, and liberal democrats
in Congress, is nothing short of a massive giveaway of American wealth
around the world, and a betrayal of the public trust, because, if passed, this bill would give over many aspects of our sovereignty to the United Nations.

The noble sounding name of this bill, 'The Global Poverty Act' is actually a Global Tax, payable to the United Nations, that will be required of all American taxpayers.
If passed in the Senate, the House has already passed it, this bill
would require the U.S. to increase our foreign aid by $65 BILLION per
year, or $845 BILLION over the next 13 years! That's on top of the
billions of dollars in foreign aid we already pay out!

In
addition to the economic burdens this potential law would place on our
precarious economy, the bill, if passed in the Senate, would also endanger our constitutionally protected rights and freedoms by obligating us to meet certain United Nations mandates.

According to Senator Obama, we should establish these United Nations' goals as benchmarks for U.S. spending. What are they?

The
creation of a U.N. International Criminal Court having the power to try
and convict American citizens and soldiers without any protection from
the U.S. Constitution.

A standing United Nations Army forcing U.S. soldiers to serve under U.N. command.

A Gun Ban on all small arms and light weapons --which would repeal our Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The ratification of the ' Kyoto ' global warming treaty and numerous other anti-American measures.

Recently,
the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations (where Sen. Joe Biden
sits) approved this plan by a voice vote without any discussion! Why all
the secrecy? If Senators Obama and Biden are so proud of this
legislation, then why don't they bring it out into the light of day and
let the American people have a look at it instead of hiding it behind
closed doors and sneaking it through Congress for late night votes.

It may be only a matter of time before this dangerous legislation reaches a floor vote in the full body of the Senate.

Please
write or call, email your representatives, the White House, the media,
or anyone you think will listen, and express your opinions regarding
this Global Tax giveaway and betrayal of the American people at a time
when our nation and our people are already heavily burdened with the
threats to our freedoms and economic prosperity.

Please send this email to as many folks out there in your networks as you can.

Here's what I have put together so far.

Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701 et seq.)§ 7701. PurposesThe purposes of this chapter are—(1)
to provide United States assistance for global development through the
Millennium Challenge Corporation, as described in section 7703 of this
title; and(2) to provide such assistance in a manner that promotes
economic growth and the elimination of extreme poverty and strengthens
good governance, economic freedom, and investments in people.

United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7601 et seq.)§ 7601. Congress makes the following findings:(1)
During the last 20 years, HIV/AIDS has assumed pandemic proportions,
spreading from the most severely affected regions, sub-Saharan Africa
and the Caribbean, to all corners of the world, and leaving an
unprecedented path of death and devastation.(2) According to the
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), more than
65,000,000 individuals worldwide have been infected with HIV since the
epidemic began, more than 25,000,000 of these individuals have lost
their lives to the disease, and more than 14,000,000 children have been
orphaned by the disease. HIV/AIDS is the fourth-highest cause of death
in the world.(3)(A) At the end of 2002, an estimated 42,000,000
individuals were infected with HIV or living with AIDS, of which more
than 75 percent live in Africa or the Caribbean. Of these individuals,
more than 3,200,000 were children under the age of 15 and more than
19,200,000 were women.(B) Women are four times more vulnerable to
infection than are men and are becoming infected at increasingly high
rates, in part because many societies do not provide poor women and
young girls with the social, legal, and cultural protections against
high risk activities that expose them to HIV/AIDS.(C) Women and
children who are refugees or are internally displaced persons are
especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation and violence, thereby
increasing the possibility of HIV infection.(4) As the leading cause
of death in sub-Saharan Africa, AIDS has killed more than 19,400,000
individuals (more than 3 times the number of AIDS deaths in the rest of
the world) and will claim the lives of one-quarter of the population,
mostly adults, in the next decade.(5) An estimated 2,000,000
individuals in Latin America and the Caribbean and another 7,100,000
individuals in Asia and the Pacific region are infected with HIV or
living with AIDS. Infection rates are rising alarmingly in Eastern
Europe (especially in the Russian Federation), Central Asia, and China.(6)
HIV/AIDS threatens personal security by affecting the health, lifespan,
and productive capacity of the individual and the social cohesion and
economic well-being of the family.(7) HIV/AIDS undermines the
economic security of a country and individual businesses in that country
by weakening the productivity and longevity of the labor force across a
broad array of economic sectors and by reducing the potential for
economic growth over the long term.(
HIV/AIDS destabilizes communities by striking at the most mobile and
educated members of society, many of whom are responsible for security
at the local level and governance at the national and subnational levels
as well as many teachers, health care personnel, and other community
workers vital to community development and the effort to combat
HIV/AIDS. In some countries the overwhelming challenges of the HIV/AIDS
epidemic are accelerating the outward migration of critically important
health care professionals.(9) HIV/AIDS weakens the defenses of
countries severely affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis through high
infection rates among members of their military forces and voluntary
peacekeeping personnel. According to UNAIDS, in sub-Saharan Africa, many
military forces have infection rates as much as five times that of the
civilian population.(10) HIV/AIDS poses a serious security issue for the international community by—(A)
increasing the potential for political instability and economic
devastation, particularly in those countries and regions most severely
affected by the disease;(B) decreasing the capacity to resolve
conflicts through the introduction of peacekeeping forces because the
environments into which these forces are introduced pose a high risk for
the spread of HIV/AIDS; and(C) increasing the vulnerability of
local populations to HIV/AIDS in conflict zones from peacekeeping troops
with HIV infection rates significantly higher than civilian
populations.(11) The devastation wrought by the HIV/AIDS pandemic is
compounded by the prevalence of tuberculosis and malaria, particularly
in developing countries where the poorest and most vulnerable members of
society, including women, children, and those individuals living with
HIV/AIDS, become infected. According to the World Health Organization
(WHO), HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria accounted for more than
5,700,000 deaths in 2001 and caused debilitating illnesses in millions
more.(12) Together, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and related
diseases are undermining agricultural production throughout Africa.
According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization,
7,000,000 agricultural workers throughout 25 African countries have died
from AIDS since 1985. Countries with poorly developed agricultural
systems, which already face chronic food shortages, are the hardest hit,
particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where high HIV prevalence rates are
compounding the risk of starvation for an estimated 14,400,000 people.(13)
Tuberculosis is the cause of death for one out of every three people
with AIDS worldwide and is a highly communicable disease. HIV infection
is the leading threat to tuberculosis control. Because HIV infection so
severely weakens the immune system, individuals with HIV and latent
tuberculosis infection have a 100 times greater risk of developing
active tuberculosis diseases thereby increasing the risk of spreading
tuberculosis to others. Tuberculosis, in turn, accelerates the onset of
AIDS in individuals infected with HIV.(14) Malaria, the most deadly
of all tropical parasitic diseases, has been undergoing a dramatic
resurgence in recent years due to increasing resistance of the malaria
parasite to inexpensive and effective drugs. At the same time,
increasing resistance of mosquitoes to standard insecticides makes
control of transmission difficult to achieve. The World Health
Organization estimates that between 300,000,000 and 500,000,000 new
cases of malaria occur each year, and annual deaths from the disease
number between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000. Persons infected with HIV are
particularly vulnerable to the malaria parasite. The spread of HIV
infection contributes to the difficulties of controlling resurgence of
the drug resistant malaria parasite.(15) HIV/AIDS is first and
foremost a health problem. Successful strategies to stem the spread of
the HIV/AIDS pandemic will require clinical medical interventions, the
strengthening of health care delivery systems and infrastructure, and
determined national leadership and increased budgetary allocations for
the health sector in countries affected by the epidemic as well as
measures to address the social and behavioral causes of the problem and
its impact on families, communities, and societal sectors.(16) Basic
interventions to prevent new HIV infections and to bring care and
treatment to people living with AIDS, such as voluntary counseling and
testing and mother-to-child transmission programs, are achieving
meaningful results and are cost-effective. The challenge is to expand
these interventions from a pilot program basis to a national basis in a
coherent and sustainable manner.(17) Appropriate treatment of
individuals with HIV/AIDS can prolong the lives of such individuals,
preserve their families, prevent children from becoming orphans, and
increase productivity of such individuals by allowing them to lead
active lives and reduce the need for costly hospitalization for
treatment of opportunistic infections caused by HIV.(18)
Nongovernmental organizations, including faith-based organizations, with
experience in health care and HIV/AIDS counseling, have proven
effective in combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic and can be a resource in
assisting indigenous organizations in severely affected countries in
their efforts to provide treatment and care for individuals infected
with HIV/AIDS.(19) Faith-based organizations are making an important
contribution to HIV prevention and AIDS treatment programs around the
world. Successful HIV prevention programs in Uganda, Jamaica, and
elsewhere have included local churches and faith-based groups in efforts
to promote behavior changes to prevent HIV, to reduce stigma associated
with HIV infection, to treat those afflicted with the disease, and to
care for orphans. The Catholic Church alone currently cares for one in
four people being treated for AIDS worldwide. Faith-based organizations
possess infrastructure, experience, and knowledge that will be needed to
carry out these programs in the future and should be an integral part
of United States efforts.(20)(A) Uganda has experienced the most
significant decline in HIV rates of any country in Africa, including a
decrease among pregnant women from 20.6 percent in 1991 to 7.9 percent
in 2000.(B) Uganda made this remarkable turnaround because President
Yoweri Museveni spoke out early, breaking long-standing cultural
taboos, and changed widespread perceptions about the disease. His
leadership stands as a model for ways political leaders in Africa and
other developing countries can mobilize their nations, including civic
organizations, professional associations, religious institutions,
business and labor to combat HIV/AIDS.(C) Uganda’s successful AIDS
treatment and prevention program is referred to as the ABC model:
“Abstain, Be faithful, use Condoms”, in order of priority. Jamaica,
Zambia, Ethiopia and Senegal have also successfully used the ABC model.
Beginning in 1986, Uganda brought about a fundamental change in sexual
behavior by developing a low-cost program with the message: “Stop having
multiple partners. Be faithful. Teenagers, wait until you are married
before you begin sex.”.(D) By 1995, 95 percent of Ugandans were
reporting either one or zero sexual partners in the past year, and the
proportion of sexually active youth declined significantly from the late
1980s to the mid-1990s. The greatest percentage decline in HIV
infections and the greatest degree of behavioral change occurred in
those 15 to 19 years old. Uganda’s success shows that behavior change,
through the use of the ABC model, is a very successful way to prevent
the spread of HIV.(21) The magnitude and scope of the HIV/AIDS
crisis demands a comprehensive, long-term, international response
focused upon addressing the causes, reducing the spread, and
ameliorating the consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, including—(A)
prevention and education, care and treatment, basic and applied
research, and training of health care workers, particularly at the
community and provincial levels, and other community workers and leaders
needed to cope with the range of consequences of the HIV/AIDS crisis;(B)
development of health care infrastructure and delivery systems through
cooperative and coordinated public efforts and public and private
partnerships;(C) development and implementation of national and
community-based multisector strategies that address the impact of
HIV/AIDS on the individual, family, community, and nation and increase
the participation of at-risk populations in programs designed to
encourage behavioral and social change and reduce the stigma associated
with HIV/AIDS; and(D) coordination of efforts between international
organizations such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the
World Health Organization (WHO), national governments, and private
sector organizations, including faith-based organizations.(22) The United States has the capacity to lead and enhance the effectiveness of the international community’s response by—(A)
providing substantial financial resources, technical expertise, and
training, particularly of health care personnel and community workers
and leaders;(B) promoting vaccine and microbicide research and the
development of new treatment protocols in the public and commercial
pharmaceutical research sectors;(C) making available pharmaceuticals and diagnostics for HIV/AIDS therapy;(D)
encouraging governments and faith-based and community-based
organizations to adopt policies that treat HIV/AIDS as a multisectoral
public health problem affecting not only health but other areas such as
agriculture, education, the economy, the family and society, and
assisting them to develop and implement programs corresponding to these
needs;(E) promoting healthy lifestyles, including abstinence,
delaying sexual debut, monogamy, marriage, faithfulness, use of condoms,
and avoiding substance abuse; and(F) encouraging active involvement
of the private sector, including businesses, pharmaceutical and
biotechnology companies, the medical and scientific communities,
charitable foundations, private and voluntary organizations and
nongovernmental organizations, faith-based organizations,
community-based organizations, and other nonprofit entities.(23)
Prostitution and other sexual victimization are degrading to women and
children and it should be the policy of the United States to eradicate
such practices. The sex industry, the trafficking of individuals into
such industry, and sexual violence are additional causes of and factors
in the spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. One in nine South Africans is
living with AIDS, and sexual assault is rampant, at a victimization rate
of one in three women. Meanwhile in Cambodia, as many as 40 percent of
prostitutes are infected with HIV and the country has the highest rate
of increase of HIV infection in all of Southeast Asia. Victims of
coercive sexual encounters do not get to make choices about their sexual
activities.(24) Strong coordination must exist among the various
agencies of the United States to ensure effective and efficient use of
financial and technical resources within the United States Government
with respect to the provision of international HIV/AIDS assistance.(25)
In his address to Congress on January 28, 2003, the President announced
the Administration’s intention to embark on a five-year emergency plan
for AIDS relief, to confront HIV/AIDS with the goals of preventing
7,000,000 new HIV/AIDS infections, treating at least 2,000,000 people
with life-extending drugs, and providing humane care for millions of
people suffering from HIV/AIDS, and for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.(26)
In this address to Congress, the President stated the following:
“Today, on the continent of Africa, nearly 30,000,000 people have the
AIDS virus—including 3,000,000 children under the age of 15. There are
whole countries in Africa where more than one-third of the adult
population carries the infection. More than 4,000,000 require immediate
drug treatment. Yet across that continent, only 50,000 AIDS victims—only
50,000—are receiving the medicine they need.”.(27) Furthermore, the
President focused on care and treatment of HIV/AIDS in his address to
Congress, stating the following: “Because the AIDS diagnosis is
considered a death sentence, many do not seek treatment. Almost all who
do are turned away. A doctor in rural South Africa describes his
frustration. He says, ‘We have no medicines. Many hospitals tell people,
you’ve got AIDS, we can’t help you. Go home and die.’ In an age of
miraculous medicines, no person should have to hear those words. AIDS
can be prevented. Anti-retroviral drugs can extend life for many years
* * * Ladies and gentlemen, seldom has history offered a greater
opportunity to do so much for so many.”.(28) Finally, the President
stated that “[w]e have confronted, and will continue to confront,
HIV/AIDS in our own country”, proposing now that the United States
should lead the world in sparing innocent people from a plague of
nature, and asking Congress “to commit $15,000,000,000 over the next
five years, including nearly $10,000,000,000 in new money, to turn the
tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the
Caribbean”.

African Growth and Opportunity Act (19 U.S.C. 3701 et seq.)§ 3701.Congress finds that—(1)
it is in the mutual interest of the United States and the countries of
sub-Saharan Africa to promote stable and sustainable economic growth and
development in sub-Saharan Africa;(2) the 48 countries of sub-Saharan Africa form a region richly endowed with both natural and human resources;(3)
sub-Saharan Africa represents a region of enormous economic potential
and of enduring political significance to the United States;(4) the
region has experienced the strengthening of democracy as countries in
sub-Saharan Africa have taken steps to encourage broader participation
in the political process;(5) certain countries in sub-Saharan Africa
have increased their economic growth rates, taken significant steps
towards liberalizing their economies, and made progress toward regional
economic integration that can have positive benefits for the region;(6) despite those gains, the per capita income in sub-Saharan Africa averages approximately $500 annually;(7)
trade and investment, as the American experience has shown, can
represent powerful tools both for economic development and for
encouraging broader participation in a political process in which
political freedom can flourish;(
increased trade and investment flows have the greatest impact in an
economic environment in which trading partners eliminate barriers to
trade and capital flows and encourage the development of a vibrant
private sector that offers individual African citizens the freedom to
expand their economic opportunities and provide for their families;(9)
offering the countries of sub-Saharan Africa enhanced trade preferences
will encourage both higher levels of trade and direct investment in
support of the positive economic and political developments under way
throughout the region; and(10) encouraging the reciprocal reduction
of trade and investment barriers in Africa will enhance the benefits of
trade and investment for the region as well as enhance commercial and
political ties between the United States and sub-Saharan Africa.

The
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were developed out of the eight
chapters of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in
September 2000. The eight goals and 21 targets include

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger * Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day. * Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people. * Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger. 2. Achieve universal primary education
* Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls
alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. 3. Promote gender equality and empower women * Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005, and at all levels by 2015. 4. Reduce child mortality * Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate. 5. Improve maternal health * Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio. * Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health. 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases * Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS. * Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it. * Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases. 7. Ensure environmental sustainability
* Integrate the principles of sustainable development into
country policies and programmes; reverse loss of environmental
resources. * Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss.
* Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation (for more information
see the entry on water supply). * By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum-dwellers. 8. Develop a global partnership for development
* Develop further an open trading and financial system that is
rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to
good governance, development and poverty reduction—nationally and
internationally. * Address the special needs of the least
developed countries. This includes tariff and quota free access for
their exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted
poor countries; and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more
generous official development assistance for countries committed to
poverty reduction. * Address the special needs of landlocked and small island developing States.
* Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing
countries through national and international measures in order to make
debt sustainable in the long term. * In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries.
* In cooperation with the private sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications